Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-01-07

means certain yet that he VIII not
be renominated by the party which
so Unexpectedly elected him two
years ago.
Two Indiana judges appear to
have struck the wise men OF the
East as available Presidential can
didates. Friction may have ex-
hausted Democratic candidates IN
other states to degree sufficient
to drive both parties to Indiana,
always a desperately contested
state in Presidential years and
bearing increased interest now that
it has become a Republican state,
having given a fair popular ma
iority for the Republicans in the
November elections. Besides In
diana is a necessary factor in all
calculations as to national politics.
Senator Voorhees,, according to
Washington gossip is fierce de-
claimer against President Cleve-
lands Democracy and also seeks a
delegation for himself from Indiana
to the next convention. Senator
Harrison is credited with similar
aspirations for Republican support
in Indiana. Judge Niblack, once
an eminent Democratic member OF
Congress, and now a member OF
the Supreme Court of Indiana, has
always been greatly respected and
cherished by his political friends.
He is a veteran OF the best school
of Democrats, and is a pure and
able man. Always a Democrat, he
vet recognizes the changes of the
past quarter of a century, and be-
lieyes in the necessity of higher
plane of political discussion than is
practiced by many of the leaders
and newspapers Of his party. A
firm believer in modern ideas, he
probably thinks less Of the Democ-
racv of Pierce and Buchanan than
do the Bourbons of his party who
can no more comprehend the Pres
ent than they can forget the Past.
The attntiOn that has worn out
old Democratic leaders has not
spared Republican eXpectants OF
Presidential honOrs. Were a Re-
publican nominating convention
held to-day, Blaine would be nom
mated with a feryor and flash OF
enthusiasm like that of the Wing
nomination of Henry Clay at Bal
timore in 1914. AS much as Mr..
Clay was the symbol of Wing ideas
and faith then is Mr.. Blame now
the talisman of Republican faith
and hope. 1t may we'll be ques-
toned whether his nomination can
be prevented, and wise Republi-
cans, looking to the doubtful pros.
pect in New York, and seeing the
necessity of electoral votes in Vir-
GINA and Tennessee, begin to ques-
ton the policy of defeating a nomi-
nation which would appeal force
fully to the PrOtectiOnist sentiment
growing so marvelously in both
Virginia and Tennessee. But Mr..
Blaine, Mr.. Sherman and other
pronounced candidates for the Re-
publican nomination, have to run
the gauntlet OF rivalry and dispu-
tatiOn during the coming two years,
and Indiana has another judge
whose friends, like those of Judge
Niblack, hope that he may be nom
mated. The Republican possibility
in Indiana is Judge Gresham, Post
master-(1eneral under President
Arthur and now judge of the Fed
eral Court. There was little sig
nifcance in his appointment 20 a
place in ArthuI's Cabinet save that
| it broke the Harrison slate in In
diana and worried Harrison's
friends who had hoped for his nom
ination at Chicago IN 1884 as a
compromise candidate. \ recent
| decision by Judge Gresham regard
ing railroad mOnopOlies and thelT
aggressions upon public rights has
/ given him Importance, and his
friends take hope that the doubt
ful political condition Of Indiana
may give him great importance
with Republicans, just as do those
Of Judge Nlblack among Demo
Gratis. Meanwhile New York gets
it's admOnition from both parties
that healthful spirit Of revolt
against New YOrk's usurpatiOn OF
political authority over the whole
country may soon be brought to
sudden and enduring grief.